DALEY WINS
Prevails over Olympic champ Chen with sizzling final dive
BUDAPEST
TOM Daley, Britain’s 2009 world champion, thwarted China’s bid to become the first country to win four successive diving world titles in the men’s 10-metre platform when the 23year-old prevailed in a thrilling final.
Olympic champion Chen Aisen was aiming to keep China’s golden exploits intact after Qiu Bo’s hat-trick of titles had matched American Greg Louganis’ feat of more than 30 years ago.
However, Daley posted a personal-best points haul of 590.95, which included five 10s in a sizzling final dive, to secure his first individual global title for eight years when he won as a 15-yearold in Rome.
Daley, who failed to qualify for the Olympic final after a disastrous preliminary round last summer, told reporters: “I can put to bed Rio now and be like, ‘Now I can move on on my journey to Tokyo’.
Chen admitted that he thought that a 20-year-old model, under which players get a fixed percentage of revenue, should be jettisoned.
Cricket Australia believes the revenue-share model is unfit for modern times and is starving grass-roots cricket of funding, while players say it has underpinned the game’s growth and prosperity over the past 20 years.
The ACA said it had made a number of concessions to CA in its ‘Terms Sheet’, including accepting “CA’s lower end revenue scenarios” as the basis for allocating pay along with lowering players’ revenue share to allow for a new ‘Grassroots Investment Fund’.
But the union added that CA had dismissed “a number of fundamentals” in the Terms Sheet and that it was seeking further clarification from the board. Reuters